History Main / StoicWoobie

* Yomogi Seiji from ''VisualNovel/Remember11''. This 35-year-old athlete is responsible without complaint for the survival of a small group of people in extreme cold conditions after a terrible plane crash, while being insulted and threatened by a mentally unstable young woman whom he saved from freezing. As the game progresses, you can learn about his phenomenally tragic family experience[[spoiler: which his beloved wife couldn't endure in her right mind]]. The player's task is not to let this strong phlegmatic man break down under the burden of responsibility in the face of mortal danger. By the way, the main female character, a student psychologist, manages to feel his hidden pain soon after meeting him, and she immediately gives him a hug in the manner of a ManicPixieDreamGirl.

* Yomogi Seiji from ''VisualNovel/Remember11''. This 35-year-old athlete is responsible without complaint for the survival of a small group of people in extreme cold conditions after a terrible plane crash, while being insulted and threatened by a mentally unstable young woman whom he saved from freezing. As the game progresses, you can learn about his phenomenally tragic family experience[[spoiler: which his beloved wife couldn't endure in her right mind]]. The player's task is not to let this strong phlegmatic man break down under the burden of responsibility in the face of mortal danger.

* Yomogi Seiji from ''VisualNovel/Remember11''. This 35-year-old athlete is responsible without complaint for the survival of a small group of people in extreme cold conditions after a terrible plane crash, while being insulted and threatened by a mentally unstable young woman whom he saved from freezing. As the game progresses, you can learn about his tragic family experience. The player's task is not to let this strong phlegmatic man break down under the burden of responsibility in the face of mortal danger.

* Monster X is portrayed this way in ''FanFic/TheBridge''. He may be an antagonist, but isn't an [[AntiVillain amoral]] character who's at worst a PunchClockVillain. Yet it seems like everything that could go wrong with his early life did, and is coming back to haunt him.

* Henri Lambert from ''VisualNovel/PiofioreNoBansho''. As a child, [[spoiler: his sister was driven insane and likely murdered by the mafia, after which he was sent away to a branch mafia family and repeatedly physically abused. He was not given enough food and would have died, but was helped by an older girl in the manor who demanded sexual acts in return. If he did a good job pleasing her, he would get some food]] and ultimately developed a severe aversion to touching people or eating food. In 1926, he is even taunted by the villain that it is his fault that [[spoiler: he was sexually abused because he is too beautiful]]. Despite all this, he shows little anger or sadness to others, and is noted as someone who has exceeding control over his emotions.

--> "There is darkness for the ones that bring me pain."

* The protagonist in ''Assemblage 23''s song "Light". Most of the lyrics talk about how he is [[TraumaCongaLine going through hell,]] but the chorus is about how he's [[TheDeterminator still gonna tough it out]]

* The person sung about in "Trouble me" by ''Music/TenThousandManiacs'' seems to be someone like this. One of the protagonist's lines is "Why are you building this thick, thick wall to defend me?"
* The subject in "Shadows Of The Night" by ''Music/PatBenatar''. He's someone in a lot of pain who tries to keep it hidden. in response she [[PetTheDog tells him she's there for him and it's ok for him to cry and the like.]]

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Lie Ren. Despite being very calm and polite most of the time, his backstory is easily among the most traumatizing of the main characters: during one night, a devastatingly powerful Grimm invaded his village; during said invasion, his mother died before his eyes and his father died attempting to give him time to survive; the trauma awoke his Semblance in time for him to save himself and Nora, which leaves them as the two sole survivors of the entire village. Making matters worse, Episode 10 makes it clear that the same Grimm that killed his father and destroyed his village is back and just a few meters ahead of him.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'s'' Blake Belladonna is the gruff, cynical DeadpanSnarker of the eponymous team, and has a habit of rebuffing people who try to befriend her (i.e. Ruby Rose, Yang Xiao Long and Sun Wukong). Her [[NotSoStoic near]] [[TheStoic unflappable]], [[SugarAndIce anti-social]] personality possibly stems from her [[DarkAndTroubledPast painful past]]. She was [[spoiler: born a [[CatGirl Faunus]], a LittleBitBeastly race of people who [[FantasticRacism face a great deal of discrimination]] from other humans. She was born a member of the White Fang, a Faunus rights activist organization, and watched the White Fang turn into a [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters violent, chaotic terrorists]] who used [[WellIntentionedExtremist force to get what they wanted from people]], and couldn't bear to be part of such an immoral group]]. She left the place she was born and all the people that had been with her for her whole life. She spends pretty much the entirety of Volume 2 in a prolonged HeroicBSOD, from closing herself off from her team and brooding over the events of Volume 1's finale, to working herself [[HeroicRROD half to death]] trying to track down Torchwick who was using [[spoiler: the White Fang]] for his own ends, to [[HeroicSelfDeprecation hating herself]] for [[spoiler: running away from the White Fang]]. She desperately needs [[TrueCompanions emotional support from the people around her]], but she [[IWorkAlone refuses to let anyone get that close to her.]]

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